Sonar
A Voice-Diary powered by State-of-the-Art Transcription AI
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What if your thoughts were transcribed as you spoke them? How could you evolve your communication? How would you use such technology to track your performance?
tl;dr:
- Transcription is powerful enough to create a new class of products.
- Voice-diaries are powerful enough to replace written diaries: Sonar captures your voice-text and presents speech through a beautiful, Spotify-like web-app.
- Record your thoughts, replay them back — or read them — and collaborate with others users on Threads.
- Create a (seemingly) infinite library of voice-notes. Sonar is moving towards being carbon-neutral.
- The audio workplace could usher in a new era of productivity.
1. Transcription
Breakthroughs in AI mean that transcription is now extremely powerful and Sonar (by Winterdelta) employs AI seemingly more accurate than Siri.
Sonar is a Voice-Diary. Super-simple! It transcribes your thoughts and presents them in a Spotify-like web-app. It’s intuitive if you’ve already been using music apps like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal et al. and extremely useful if you fall under the ‘classic’ category.
The classic category
People including myself are overwhelmed by the visual digital world. The sheer number of tools at our disposal is gargantuan. We struggle to keep up with the latest trends and there is a continual Cambrian explosion of visualform techniques, tools… and tasks.
Sonar seeks to cut through the clutter by replacing the visual medium with the aural (hearing) medium. The audio format is way more linear than the visual, but just as creative and just as expansive for the imagination.
Create Threads of notes and even collaborate on Threads with other users.
2. Voice-diary with a Spotify-like UI
There are a few voice diary apps on the market, but where Sonar really shines is in its ability to transcribe and in its ability to present.
We all enjoy using Music apps like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal et al. and we are familiar with the way they layout content, describe audio and encourage the consumption of audio. Sonar is based on the same structural paradigm:
3. Recorded Threads
You can create as many Threads as you want, given (app storage limitations). Each Thread contains multiple voice-strings.
4. Storage + Carbon-Quantification
In term of storage for each user, there is the possibility that the app employs ‘thresholding’, which would limit each account to fixed size.
This would mean that the app can be carbon-quantified with much greater ease. For now, storage is (within reason) unlimited.
5. Audio Workplace
The end-vision for Sonar is really to create a UI that takes advantage of the current phenomenal quality of audio earphones / headphones and creates ‘in-ear’ organisations or workplaces.
What if all you need to work is your earphones, connecting you to apps which transcribe your thoughts, which you communicate to your colleagues? What if reading and writing are — one day — things of the past? What if intuiting text is a task best meant for computers? What if speaking and conversation is the defining domain for humans?
